DIGITAL ART IMAGING I
Overview
You interact with digital art every day, why not learn how to create it? In Digital Art Imaging 1, you will explore the fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques of digital imaging. You’ll learn how to use computers, digital cameras, editing software, and more to create digital artworks and use the critique process grow artistically as you evaluate and respond to your own work. This course provides elective credit and fulfills a performing/fine art requirement for high school graduation.
Major Topics and Concepts
Segment One
- identify characteristics of digital imaging
- explore how technology has changed art as well as opportunities to experience art
- recognize how artists demonstrate personal responsibility, ethics, integrity, and respect for intellectual property
- identify shape, color and its properties, line and space
- analyze the meaning of a work of art
- use the artistic process to create shapes and colors and layer them using digital art software
- demonstrate the use of shape and color in a digital image
- create an artist statement to reflect on your work and how it conveys the intended meaning
- explore career opportunities in the visual arts
- explore how to take digital photographs with basic photographic techniques
- use the artistic process to create a digital image
- demonstrate the use of emphasis, ethics, line, and space in a digital image
- create an artist statement to reflect on your work and apply feedback to digital images
- identify texture and movement
- explore how to take digital photographs with lighting techniques and various perspectives
- demonstrate the use of movement in a digital image
- identify emphasis
- explore the history of and experiment with photo manipulation
- experiment with digital editing tools
Segment Two
- identify balance and how artists use it in digital collages
- experiment with digital collage techniques and typography
- identify rhythm and typography
- describe characteristics of typeface categories and typographic techniques
- explore how to create and edit text
- create an artwork that includes personal symbolism
- use the artistic process to create digital images
- demonstrate the use of rhythm in a digital image
- identify proportion and form
- experiment with digital drawing techniques
- identify unity
- experiment with digital animation techniques
- analyze the meaning of a work of art
- brainstorm ideas for your digital image
- create an artist statement to reflect on your work and whether it conveys the intended meaning
- explore career opportunities in the visual arts
Fee Details
Regular : R 9166.66
Grade 9, 10, 11, 12
Annual
Digital Art Software, Like Adobe Photoshop or an equivalent program
None
